We are doing a major rewrite of our mobile app in a new framework, and we are really excited for the changes this is going to bring with it. Everyone is going to see lots of performance and stability improvements, plus this update is going to let us work a lot more efficiently on the features we have planned for the year.

We are moving toward the final stages of development and as part of that, we would like to invite our android users to join a beta test of the new mobile app. If you are interested in participating, please send an email to beta@cronometer.com and we will reach out with more info when we are ready to get started, which should be some time next week.

Space is limited so please let us know asap if you’d like to be a part of our beta program.

Cheers,

Spencer
Chief Product Officer, Cronometer.com

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Is "Oatmeal, Regular Cooking" dry or cooked?https://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1753/is-oatmeal-regular-cooking-dry-or-cooked
Sun, 20 Jan 2019 17:22:29 +0000General DiscussionRDavid1753@/discussionsIs "Oatmeal, Regular Cooking 1 cup - 234g" a dry or cooked measurement?
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Cronometer's Got a Fresh New Lookhttps://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1735/cronometers-got-a-fresh-new-look
Wed, 16 Jan 2019 18:10:39 +0000General DiscussionHilary1735@/discussions2019 is going to be an exciting year for Cronometer, and we want to keep you updated on everything that is going on with your favorite nutrition tracking app. Today is an exciting day for us as we launch a new and improved cosmetic overhaul for the web version of Cronometer.

The big changes sit at the top of the web page in the navigation bar. We have added subcategories to each of the main tabs that will help you navigate quickly through the app.

Within each tab, you may see a couple more changes most notably in the updated settings tab.

To go along with these new changes we have also realeased an updated comprehensive user manual.

Let us know if you have any questions or feedback here on the forum or at support@cronometer.com

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Macronutrient Targetshttps://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1736/macronutrient-targets
Wed, 16 Jan 2019 20:59:57 +0000General Discussionernesto_carreras1736@/discussionsWhat does it mean when one of my micronutrients is higher than 100%? Usually, my Net Carbs are over 100%.
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Why do healthy foods often lack more complete micro-nutrient information on their labels?https://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1737/why-do-healthy-foods-often-lack-more-complete-micro-nutrient-information-on-their-labels
Wed, 16 Jan 2019 22:51:14 +0000General DiscussionDanielShakleferd1737@/discussionsWhy is it that I can pick up a box of super processed breakfast cereal and see a long list of micronutrients proudly displayed on the package, but a can of spinach(for example) generally just shows a couple?

I would think that the companies selling such foods would want to show more, considering that many people probably buy junk food with a bunch of artificially added micronutrients to help them rationalize that they are healthy or not too bad(I have been "guilty" of that in the past).

Is it because of some legal red tape, or is there just not enough demand, or what? I assume it is probably legally easier to get artificially added nutrients displayed, is that why? If we could only see the nutrition facts labels of various foods, we might think that Fruity Pebbles or Pop-Tarts were healthier than fruits or vegetables. It seems absurd considering that whatever we think about artificially added nutrients, it is basically just like eating a multivitamin with our food.

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"View/edit selected food" should include a favorite iconhttps://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1368/view-edit-selected-food-should-include-a-favorite-icon
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:01:27 +0000General Discussioncattledogit1368@/discussionsAs it is now, I have to retype or rescan the item in order to favorite it. That's not so difficult, but remembering that that's what I need to do after I've copied the item a couple of times to succeeding days is. Thanks for cronometer!
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Using Images in the Cronometer Forumhttps://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1429/using-images-in-the-cronometer-forum
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 17:53:08 +0000General DiscussiontcolvinOH1429@/discussions@bracconiere - I thought I'd move the discussion here, vs tying up the challenge post with the discussion.

The only way I've ever been able to make images work is to upload to Imgur, then View the image, so I can see the file extension. So https://imgur.com/a/FXHgRS4 becomes https://i.imgur.com/raEJRBW.png when I right click on the first and select "View Image". I then paste the second link, with the file extension in, and it gives me an embedded image, but it appears in code starting with a !. Once I click post, the embedded image shows up.

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Fitness Tracker recommendationshttps://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1671/fitness-tracker-recommendations
Sun, 23 Dec 2018 15:04:47 +0000General DiscussionBakerStreet1671@/discussionsI am thinking about purchasing a fitness tracker to monitor my heart rate while I am exercising in the pool during water aerobics. I am not really interested in the other features such as sleep tracking, GPS, etc. I want a device that is easy to use, accurate and is waterproof for water aerobics (not lap swimming). Does anyone have any experience with this specific use. Thank you in advance.
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Does Anyone Use Ourahttps://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1724/does-anyone-use-oura
Thu, 10 Jan 2019 17:31:15 +0000General Discussionfrannie19771724@/discussionsThinking about getting a fitness tracker. I don't want or need smartphone technology. I was looking at the Oura. I like that the battery holds a charge for up to 7 days. I also like that you can get it wet. I love that its not a rubbery, ugly piece of equipment on your wrist!

I've had a Fitbit in the past and didn't like it. My arm constantly itched where it touched my skin. I had to charge it often and would forget it on the charger and got to a point where I didn't wear it for days! I also had an iPhone Watch. My hands shake, so trying to touch little tiny things on a little tiny screen were infuriating! Plus it had to be charged every day. I'm just not that willing to be consumed with my technology. I need something that allows me to live my life and be present and not tied down to electrical cords.

Anyone have an Oura and can give feedback on the practicality and ease of use? Or is there something similar and compatible that is a must have?

We are conducting some user research and are currently looking for people to participate in a 1 to 1.5 hour interview with members of the team. We would love to talk to you or someone you know about Cronometer so we can learn what we can do to make your experience with the app even better. We also value your time and input, so we are offering a $100 Amazon Gift Card to anyone who is selected and completes the interview. Here is what we are looking for:

Option 1: You are currently using the app and have never upgraded to Gold

If that is you, and you’re interested in talking to us, follow this link to a brief questionnaire that will tell us a little bit more about you. Once you submit it, someone from the team will be in touch to schedule an interview if you are selected.

Option 2: You are interested in health and nutrition and tracking your diet and nutrition, but never used Cronometer before.

Wait what? Isn’t this the wrong place to find people who never used Cronometer? I realize that everyone here is already using the app, but we are asking you to share the following link with someone you know that might be happy using Cronometer to track their data. If we select someone you referred to us and they complete the interview, then you will get a $25 Amazon Gift Card, and they'll get a gift card as well, so share the love! Here is the link to use. Again, it goes to a slightly different questionnaire that will tell us about who we will be speaking to.

This is a limited time offer, so as soon as we have enough people scheduled we will close things down. We really appreciate all the support you have given us over the years. We couldn’t have made it to where we are today without you!

I recently tried purchasing a couple of bluetooth scales. I got the Weight Gurus and FitIndex. These are both pretty good options, but neither syncs with Cronometer directly. They sync with Google Fit (which then syncs over to Cronometer), but they only sync Weight.

Does anyone have any suggestions on the best options out for 2018 for a smart scale that can sync, either directly or indirectly to Cronometer, and will Sync ALL datapoints (body fat, bone mass, muscle mass, BMI, etc, and not just weight).

Thanks

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time stamphttps://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1611/time-stamp
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:19:14 +0000General Discussionpkinnetz1611@/discussionsImmediately after the time change, I noticed that the time stamp did not change. I've waited for a while manually changing the time stamp, thinking this little bug would be taken care of. But it is still reflecting daylight savings time, not standard time. How can I permanently change this (until daylight savings time comes again, of course). Or is this something the administrators have to do? Also is there a way to change the default of the biomeasures to breakfast rather than lunch, so I don't have to do this change each time I add something?
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The Oura Ringhttps://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1600/the-oura-ring
Wed, 21 Nov 2018 01:23:51 +0000General DiscussionCrono_C1600@/discussionsFor those of you with an Oura Ring, could you share what you like about it as well as what you don't like about it? Also, if you know, how does it compare to say a Garmin fitness watch? My husband wants to get me a Garmin watch since he really likes his. But, I'm kind of drawn to the Oura ring although honestly I don't know much about it. Please share if you have experience with it.
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Questions about cooked and uncooked foodshttps://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1590/questions-about-cooked-and-uncooked-foods
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 02:51:37 +0000General DiscussionSeekerOfKnowledge1590@/discussionsOk I know this is going to sound obvious, but I’m having a bit of an issue with tracking certain foods.

I have a food scale for all of my foods, but I’m not sure how I should log that information in.

For oatmeal: should I log the dry choice in my diary, and then cook it? Or use the cooked option, and record the cooked amount instead?

Same question for raw meats, I’m not going to eat raw meats, but I would use my kitchen scale to record the weight.

I use grams whenever possible for true weight.
My doctor wants me to use a tracker, and I don’t want to record a wrong metric and mess up his reports.

I have made some really good bircher muesli with coconut yoghurt recently and I really love yoghurt with breakfast and Indian food!

Im going to get a yoghurt maker and source some plant based yoghurt starter so I thought I'd kick off a discussion and see what suggestions people have or ideas.

One thing I'd like to try and work out is how to get the macros correct for the yoghurt I make - should it be as simple as combining the ingredients into a recipe? Or does some automagical stuff happen to the makeup when the culture gets going?

Best,
Will

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Nutritional Values in homemade oat milkhttps://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1544/nutritional-values-in-homemade-oat-milk
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 06:44:51 +0000General DiscussionHeligan1544@/discussionsIve been trying to find the nutritional value of homemade oat milk so I can add it to custom foods (I think calcium is added to most manufacturered oat milk).... Im not having much luck I was wondering if anyone else had found the nutritional values anywhere.

Also having similar issue for dandelion coffee.

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Duplicate activity detectionhttps://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1541/duplicate-activity-detection
Thu, 01 Nov 2018 05:31:47 +0000General DiscussionWilleCoyote1541@/discussionsHi guys,I sync with strava and fitbit and usually take my fitbit off when cycling so it doesn't double count my activity but today I left it on and noticed later in the day only 830kCal registered by Fitbit and when I checked strava I had logged 840kC.
Since the strava activity is not in my feed does that mean that Cronometer detects similar date/time and calorie activities from different sources and only count one?
If so, that's very clever and great.
Will
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22 potato chips.....lolhttps://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1287/22-potato-chips-lol
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:00:10 +0000General Discussionbracconiere1287@/discussionsso i ate a 2 5/8oz check out line bag of chips, when i logged it i just enter 2.7oz's...but i noticed it had the option of 22 chips, i started laughing..and just thought i'd say that little 500-600g scale are like 15-20 bucks, and don't count your chips! lol

and for Recipes a 25lb scale isn't much more...

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What are some of your favorite spices or herbs?https://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1520/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-spices-or-herbs
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 16:23:30 +0000General Discussionbutterfly1520@/discussionsI need some inspiration!
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How to gain healthy weight?https://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1505/how-to-gain-healthy-weight
Sat, 20 Oct 2018 04:17:15 +0000General Discussiongarry1505@/discussionsI have problems with weight gain, I have tried many ways even I take medicine, but not effective.i have experience? please give me some suggestions.
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Pronounce CRON-O-Meterhttps://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1417/pronounce-cron-o-meter
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 22:15:49 +0000General Discussionbracconiere1417@/discussionsi've always pronounced it like it's spelled CRON-O-Meter. But i heard mercola in one of his video's call it Chronometer...

have i been saying it wrong all these years?

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"Deactivate" Custom Foodhttps://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1504/deactivate-custom-food
Fri, 19 Oct 2018 19:57:41 +0000General Discussionstarchivore1504@/discussionsIs there a way to not show a custom food in the search results? There are a few custom foods that I no longer use that I don't want to appear in my search results. When I search for a similar custom food, the one that I no longer use shows at the top of the search results.
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My experience with Cronometer.https://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/1499/my-experience-with-cronometer
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 08:06:08 +0000General DiscussionSteven1499@/discussionsGood evening everyone.
This post is going to be a mish mash of my experience with Cronometer, and the praise, criticism and quirks that go along with that.

I have been using Cronometer for at least 10 months now. I do not track activity, I don't set goals in app, I literally just log what I have consumed. But this has been a really useful tool. After years of failing to gain weight, I was able to see the numbers, see I wasn't eating enough, make adjustments, get results, get enthusiastic, eat too much...and then I got to figure out how to lose weight.

All this with the most basic of features, and for that, much praise.

Of course it is not all smooth sailing. Very long load times still persist for me. More often on wifi networks vs mobile data. It is frustrating when I am hungry and my scale times out before Cronometer can load.

UI quirks.
Food item lists reorder themselves if you close a selection window. Frustrating.
Accidentally missed "Mark Day as Complete(What does it even do?)" and hit "Copy Previous Day". And your Data is scrambled. Really needs a confirmation popup before that action happens.

Changing time frame for trends is Gold locked, if you want to change it to a greater range. The default is 3 months, I checked out 8 weeks, couldn't go back to 3 months. So I tested each step. Now I am stuck at 7 days. Was a really unpleasant way to find out the feature wasn't allowed. And now I can't show you my accidental "Copy Previous Day" spikes!

Cronometer is a great program. The basic features have served me well. And they would serve anyone well that wanted to make changes to their habit and their bodies. The quirks are hurting the experience though.

Thank you for the program, thank you for reading.

All the best.
Steven.

Just for clarity - these experiences are from the app on a Samsung Galaxy J5Pro phone.

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Ever heard of developing neurological symptoms on a vegan diet?https://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/125/ever-heard-of-developing-neurological-symptoms-on-a-vegan-diet
Sun, 17 Sep 2017 18:08:20 +0000General DiscussionGreenflower125@/discussionsI am not expecting anyone to be a doctor, but I am curious if anyone has heard of what I have been experiencing and please don't get political over my dietary choices.

I have been mainly vegetarian most of my life and often that included months on end of strict plant based eating... but about 2 years ago I went strict vegan after a couple years of a more omnivorous lifestyle that included even small amounts of meat on occasion. I suppose my body can change over the years, as 1 month into it, I would feel weak and shaky, like I needed to eat, but I would eat and I wouldn't feel better. I would feel sick until I awoke the next day. This never happened to me in the past. This seemed to happen nearly daily for awhile, and I would get migraines and just generally felt unwell.

Now, I want to preface that I don't eat much vegan junk food, as I am a gardener and grow a lot of my own fruits and veggies- just an FYI, but I do avoid wheat and oats as they cause my body to hurt- I get bad inflammation in my back where I have had some disc issues in the past.

A few months into my strict vegan diet, I woke in the middle of the night several times thinking there was an earthquake or that my bed was vibrating, but it was actually me, shaking. This happened only occasionally, and I began taking a good quality sublingual B12 tablet- although, I had been taking a Bcomplex the entire time and drinking fortified plant milk everyday. My symptoms seemed to go away, except an occasional shake in my right hand that would only last a second and I felt depressed, often agitated and in general exhausted and weak. I was going through some emotional stress as well, but not sure if it was the emotional stress making it worse or if the physical symptoms were causing the emotional stress.

I would exercise- at the very least walk 2-5 miles a day, do yoga and sometimes run if I had the energy. I felt hungry all the time and never satiated and I couldn't lose 1 pound for the life of me.

I eventually quit taking the B12 tablet after a blood test showed really high B12- the doc said to ease up- I didn't think it was necessary, but figured I got enough in my fortified foods anyway. 3 weeks later, the shaky feeling hit me again and became much worse and day after day my symptoms increased- It was more internal as externally the shaking was subtle, but inside full body vibrations, weird electrical feelings in my chest, doctors and friends could feel them if they rested their hands on me for a minute- Cramps would occur in both feet at the same time, muscles would twitch in my thighs, calves, arms, eyes, and cheeks... I started seeing shadows out of the corners of my eyes... like insects. I know... I sound insane! I knew it was a hallucination, so I kept my cool- but it freaked me out. I rarely drink, but found that drinking even 1-2 drinks of alcohol would send my body into full vibration mode for hours- I kept trying to manage the anxiety these scary symptoms were causing, lots of yoga, meditation, low stress environment, etc.

I went to ERs, Docs and Neurologists, and did have a nerve and muscle test, but it didn't show anything. Blood tests didn't show much except slight potassium and vitamin D deficiency and mild anemia of a heredity source, not dietary. The docs won't run anymore tests- treated me like I was mentally ill. They even gave my some anti-depressant that sent my body shaking worse than ever... It's been stressful to say the least. I just had to remind myself that whatever was happening wasn't killing me although it was frightening.

Anyway, I started tracking my nutrition in cronometer, and maybe because I eat a low cal diet- not sure- I realized though that I was not getting many RDV of B vitamins, iron, zinc, calcium, protein etc. I actually broke down and ate non-vegan food at first, I was freaked out and willing to try anything- just a little bit of fish and some eggs. I literally dropped 8 pounds that week that I incorporated a small amount of animal products. However, I just can't eat that on a regular basis as my conscience gets the best of me. I have since been eating 98% plant based- occassionally a bite of meat or an egg, but very occasional- however, I have found some good hacks for me that have balanced my diet a lot better... I have realized it can be tricky to get drv with low calorie diet of 1200-1400 and a restriction of most grains- anyhow, I am happy to report, I am much better. I still can not drink alcohol without terrible vibration feeling and I have mild twitching and cramps and often a mild shaking or pulsating feeling throughout my body... but it actually is much better. And this happened since I changed my diet about 2 months ago using cronometer- I have also lost 13 pounds altogether and have strength and energy to work out everyday, which I have not had for years- so that is great! But, I am still perplexed at how these neurological problems surfaced, were they nutrition related... my doctors know nothing about nutrition- because I look healthy, they don't take me serious. It's been frustrating- thousands of dollars later and I am still wondering what just happened.
Have you ever heard of such a thing?

My feeling is that if its not as accurate as possible, it should not go in. For example, I was at a wedding over the weekend and didnt track my food (and alcohol intake for two days). Rather than "guestimating" those two days I think it would be most accurate to just remove them from the log. Do most people just leave them blank and marked as incomplete and then use only complete days for trends? Do you just put some "best guess" as to what you ate and the number of calories? Just wondering what folks do.

Thanks,

JAM

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Difference between bars and wheelhttps://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/11/difference-between-bars-and-wheel
Mon, 28 Aug 2017 21:52:08 +0000General DiscussionmigrationUser11@/discussionsHi, I’m new here and just getting used to the cronometer app.